Science Sources: Detection and Attribution
Climate Signals tracks detection and attribution studies in real time. Below is an updating database of studies that find the fingerprint of human-caused climate change on observed trends and events. The database is limited to studies of local significance in the United States and studies of global significance. For a broader database of peer-reviewed studies and organizational reports on climate change trends, please see all Science Sources.
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Title | Source | Date | Author(s) |
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Causes of twentieth-century temperature change near the Earth's surface | Nature | Simon F. B. Tett, Peter A. Stott, Myles R. Allen, William J. Ingram, John F. B. Mitchell | |
Change in the Odds of Warm Years and Seasons Due to Anthropogenic Influence on the Climate | AMS Journal of Climate | Nikolaos Christidis and Peter A. Stott | |
Changes in the geopotential height at 500 hPa under the influence of external climatic forcings | Geophysical Research Letters | Nikolaos Christidis, Peter A. Stott | |
Changing intensity of hydroclimatic extreme events revealed by GRACE and GRACE-FO | Nature Water | ||
Climate change and California drought in the 21st century | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Michael E. Mann, Peter H. Gleick | |
Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood | Science Advances | Xingying Huang and Daniel L. Swain | |
Climate change made UK heatwave at least 10 times more likely | World Weather Attribution | M. Zachariah, R. Vautard, D. Schumacher, M. Vahlberg , D. Heinrich, E. Raju, L. Thalheimer, J. Arrighi, R. Singh, S. Li, J. Sun, G. Vecchi, et al | |
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale | Nature Climate Change | Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely, Reto Knutti | |
Climate of the weakly-forced yet high-impact convective storms throughout the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic United States | Climate Dynamics | Binod Pokharel, S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jonathan Meyer, Robert Gillies, Yen-Heng Lin | |
Colorado River flow dwindles as warming-driven loss of reflective snow energizes evaporation | Science | P. C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne | |
Compounding effects of warm sea surface temperature and reduced sea ice on the extreme circulation over the extratropical North Pacific and North America during the 2013–2014 boreal winter | Geophysical Research Letters | Ming‐Ying Lee, Chi‐Cherng Hong, Huang‐Hsiung Hsu | |
Concurrent 2018 Hot Extremes Across Northern Hemisphere Due to Human‐Induced Climate Change | Earth's Future | M. M. Vogel, J. Zscheischler, R. Wartenburger, D. Dee, S. I. Seneviratne | |
Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012–2014 | Geophysical Research Letters | Williams, A. Park, Seager, Richard, Abatzoglou, John T., Cook, Benjamin I., Smerdon, Jason E., Cook, Edward R. | |
Contribution of relative sea-level rise to historical hurricane flooding in New York City | Journal of Quaternary Science | Kemp, Andrew C., Horton, Benjamin P. | |
Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes | Science | B. D. Santer, M. F. Wehner, T. M. L. Wigley, R. Sausen, G. A. Meehl, K. E. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, W. M. Washington, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann | |
Deducing Multidecadal Anthropogenic Global Warming Trends Using Multiple Regression Analysis | AMS Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Jiansong Zhou and Ka-Kit Tung | |
Detectable Changes in the Frequency of Temperature Extremes | AMS Journal of Climate | Simone Morak, Gabriele C. Hegerl, and Nikolaos Christidis | |
Detectable regional changes in the number of warm nights | Geophysical Research Letters | Morak, S., Hegerl, G. C., Kenyon, J. | |
Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Hiroyuki Murakami, Thomas L. Delworth, William F. Cooke, Ming Zhao, Baoqiang Xiang, Pang-Chi Hsu | |
Detecting an external influence on recent changes in oceanic oxygen using an optimal fingerprinting method | Biogeosciences | Andrews, O. D., Bindoff, N. L., Halloran, P. R., Ilyina, T., Quéré, C. Le |